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NEW DELHI: Mauritius-based group Rogers and Company Ltd is scouting for partners in India to expand its operations in logistics and beach resorts and has signed a joint venture with a textile firm here. "We are exploring possibilities to enter into joint ventures with companies here in diverse fields. We are currently discussing a 50:50 partnership with a textile company here and would help them sell products in France," Rogers Philippe Executive President Espitalier Noel told reporters here today.

NEW DELHI: The Times Audience Network , the digital video arm of the Times Group, India's largest media conglomerate, will start offering innovative new advertising formats in partnership with Brainient, an interactive advertising platform. Brainient recently secured $800,000 in VC funding in a financing round led by Venture Capital Investor Arts Alliance . Brainient will help the Times Group deliver interactive video advertising through the company's flagship product, BrainStudio, designed for publishers and media agencies to add interactive overlays to pre-rolls and other video content through a simple drag-and-drop interface.

Small and medium scale companies can make a Matrix-like transformation from Thomas Anderson to "Neo" Technology research firm Gartner had recently predicted, as part of its Top Ten predictions for the Asia-Pacific region that more than half of the publicly traded IT vendors were going to close down or sell shop to bigger players over the coming years. This naturally had a lot of people worried including not just small- and medium-sized vendors but also businesses across the world that are either currently doing business with tier-2 or tier-3 vendors, or are in the final stages of doing so. The first question that most people are asking is, "Is it risky to do business with smaller IT vendors?"

HYDERABAD: Tata Teleservices Limited, dual technology service provider, today launched Nova Navigator powered by Novatium for its Photon Pro and Photon Plus community in India. This is for the first time that a cloud computing can now be accessible on mobile broadband device. The services include comprehensive computing experience with special emphasis on internet, gaming, digital entertainment, online education, telephony and business productivity, Alok Singh and Lloyd Mathias,CEO, Novatium Solution Systems and Chief Marketing officer Tata Teleservices respectively told a joint press conference here today.

I AM a partner in two firms. I applied for issuance of full accounts statements for different years of both the firms to the concerned ITO. I deposited the required fee through challan forms in a bank. For about 5-6 months I visited the concerned clerk of the ITO, and after all these I was informed orally that the certified copy of the accounts of the firm and the partnership deed cannot be issued to me as the other partners of the firm have given in writing not to supply the same and also section 138 of Income Tax Act debars the issuance of these certified copies.

NEW DELHI: Tech giant IBM today said it has built a private cloud environment to support virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) at India-based KPO Evalueserve.com. The private cloud deployed on IBM Systems will increase productivity of Evalueserve's 2,000 employees, IBM said in a statement. No financial details were disclosed. "Operating at maximum capacity, our server and storage resources were finding it hard to keep up with our growing business needs. IBM helped us create a scalable and flexible cloud infrastructure which can easily support our growth for the next 10 years," Evalueserve CIO Sachin Jain said.

NEW DELHI: Granite and engineered stone exporter Pokarna has inked a pact with Dutch firm Dekker Zevenhuizen to broaden its consumer base in the Benelux market. Pokarna, which reported Rs 170 crore in revenue last fiscal, sells its products in more than 50 countries. "Under the co-operation agreement, Dekker Zevenhuizen will exclusively distribute Pokarna Engineered Stone's (PESL) quartz surfaces in the Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) market," Pokarna said in a statement.

MUMBAI: Household consumer durable company Usha International would be the official partners of Mumbai Indians (MI) for the 8th and the 9th seasons of the Indian Premier League (IPL). As a part of the collaboration, the company's logo would be seen on the leading side of the caps and helmets of the MI players, a media release said here today. Usha would also collaborate with the IPL franchise to create exclusive marketing campaigns and is entitled to have multiple players for consumer engagement, the release added.